Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758142AbYFJXxb (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:53:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754199AbYFJXxX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:53:23 -0400 Received: from mail-dub.bigfish.com ([213.199.154.10]:64063 "EHLO mail113-dub-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754136AbYFJXxW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:53:22 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1190 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:53:21 EDT X-BigFish: VPS-36(zz1432R98dR7efV1805M69jzz10d3izzz2fh6bh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 160.33.98.75;Service: EHS Message-ID: <484F0122.6080700@am.sony.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:33:06 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: linux-embedded , linux kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] add diffconfig utility References: <484ED902.9040000@am.sony.com> <1213135624.2534.99.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1213135624.2534.99.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jun 2008 22:34:55.0474 (UTC) FILETIME=[34D96520:01C8CB4A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1330 Lines: 38 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:41 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: >> +# Added and removed items are shown with a leading plus or minus, >> +# respectively. Changed items show the old and new values on a >> +# single line. > > It'd be really nice if it could give its output in the same form as > the .config file itself -- so it'd look something like: > > # CONFIG_FOO is not set > CONFIG_BAR=y Would an option for that style of output be OK? The tool currently produces something similar to a diff (but with changed lines compressed to a single line for conciseness). It should be easy to produce something that can be used with another tool to transform one config into another. It's unclear what to do with variables that are supposed to be removed from the config (as opposed to be set to "CONFIG_FOO is not set" Does merge.pl handle this, or is this left to something like 'make oldconfig'? -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/